Month: August 2023

It’s now two years since Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel was closed following a spate of suicides. As the ill-fated project gathers dust, Matt Shaw reflects on what went wrong. I arrived in New York City last week on a bus from New Jersey with a skyline view of the West Side of Manhattan. I was annoyed

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Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective imagination. Relieved of superfluous decorations, modern architecture became associated with the predominant use of white surfaces to highlight the volumetric composition. Combined with the concept of “material truth” first articulated by Victorian critic John Ruskin, white-colored architecture is often understood as straightforward, clear, and sincere.

Benjakitti Park is an urban park located in the former Tobacco factory area, owned by The Treasury Department, Ministry of Finance. The site covers 720,000 sq.m. After The Tobacco factory was relocated, the site was developed to become an urban park in Bangkok.

South Melbourne House by Pandolfini Architects   Pandolfini Architects introduces a bold addition to a modest Victorian terrace house in South Melbourne, Australia. By juxtaposing raw materials and luxury finishes and incorporating double-height v…

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed the design of the Daxia Tower, to be built in the High-Tech Economic and Technological Development Zone of Xi’an, one of China’s largest inland cities with a population nearing nine million people. The tower will mark the center of Xi’an’s business district and will include offices, retail, and ancillary facilities, all designed with data analytics and behavior modeling to ensure a balanced disposition of spaces.

This project is located in Kennett River, a small coastal town situated along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The site itself is a thin plot of land, located high up on the hillside ridge.

In the face of a climate emergency, various fields are under pressure to reformulate their operations and actions, and architecture is no exception. After all, the built environment and the construction industry are responsible for a considerable percentage of carbon gas emissions into the atmosphere. Rethinking and restructuring the construction chain – from design to execution – is the order of the day for construction professionals.